Introducing The Velocity Fund, a Regional Re-granting Program of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts! The new Philadelphia initiative, a partnership between Temple Contemporary and the Warhol Foundation, kicks off its initial round of applications March 15, 2018, with grants up to $5,000 to 10-15 artists or artist teams awarded in September, 2018. Read more and click over to the application site – link in the article!
Read MoreThe unusual combination of works appears to represent studies of the human condition–music stilled, broken bones, poverty, torture, a near-death experience, and more. The works are crammed together, much like the city, much like Temple University itself, as they present artists’ views of disparate problems facing us.
Read MoreYuskavage can seem disarmingly down-to-earth at one moment, and intriguingly ambiguous the next. At one point during the evening she casually remarked: “Sometimes love is a killer for art.”
Read MoreOsorio, a professor of art and co-chair of the Community Arts Program at Tyler—as well as a 1999 MacArthur Fellow, former social worker, and internationally celebrated artist—roots his artistic process in community. For decades, he has been committed to a dialogical approach to art-making that explores the cultural, political, and social contexts in which we live, with participation a key aspect of his work.
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